# Install sshx with Homebrew, pacman

Fast, collaborative live terminal sharing over the web. Version 0.4.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with pacman: sudo pacman -S sshx.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:sshx
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sshx
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S sshx
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: sshx from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:sshx
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.1
- **Source summary:** Fast, collaborative live terminal sharing over the web
- **Homepage:** <https://sshx.io>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ekzhang/sshx>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- sshx (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.4.1
## Project history and usage

sshx is a Rust-based CLI and hosted web service for collaborative terminal sharing.

### Project history

The upstream repository began in 2022 with a minimal gRPC server, but public package-facing releases appear in the later 0.x tag series. The README describes sshx as a secure web-based collaborative terminal, while the official website presents it as link-based terminal sharing on a multiplayer infinite canvas.

### Adoption history

The README and website promote a curl installer, direct binaries for macOS, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, and embedded ARM targets, Homebrew installation, and a one-command CI/CD debugging workflow. The supplied package metadata records Homebrew and Arch/pacman availability.

### How it is used

Users run the `sshx` client to create a terminal-sharing session and receive a browser URL. The project emphasizes real-time collaboration, remote cursors, end-to-end encryption, automatic reconnection, mesh networking, and CI debugging sessions that pause a workflow while exposing a collaborative shell.

### Why package nerds care

sshx matters to package nerds because it packages a modern terminal-sharing workflow as a tiny CLI: install a binary, run one command, and bridge terminal state into the browser. It sits near tools such as tmate but leans into web collaboration, Rust packaging, and cross-platform binary distribution.

### Timeline

- 2022: Initial upstream commits implemented the server foundation.
- 2023: Official website copyright identifies the open-source project under Eric Zhang.
- 2024: v0.2.x and v0.3.x tags appeared in the upstream repository.
- 2025: v0.4.x tags appeared, with Homebrew and Arch packaging recorded in package metadata.

### Related projects

- sshx is related to terminal-sharing and remote-pairing tools such as tmate, but its official materials center the browser canvas and hosted mesh service.

### Sources

- Git history from https://github.com/ekzhang/sshx
- <https://github.com/ekzhang/sshx#readme>
- <https://sshx.io>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- pacman - sshx - 0.4.1-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: sshx from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A secure web-based, collaborative terminal | https://github.com/ekzhang/sshx


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/sshx.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/sshx.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph